DVD Architect Scene Selection Dilemma

[Jim Greene]

Not sure if there is an easier way than to double-click the mpeg2 media in your Project Overview window then move each affected marker on the timeline to its new position. Then all your chapters will point to the correct spot in the media.

-Jim.

[Stephen Mann]

Or, re-encode the MPEG2 file *with* the markers.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Bob Linsdell]

If you had used the original video for the scene button images, they will be messed up from the point you edited the movie forward.

If you have the original Vegas project file, create a very low resolution movie file, drop this in your DVDA project folder and then for each scene button change the media to the low resolution video file – you will now how the original image back.

For the low res movie I use one of the Memory Stick templates of Sony AVC. To save space you can disable the sound.

If you have lost the original Vegas project file, but you have the original finished movie file, you can re-render this to create the lower res movie.

As for fixing the scene markers, you need to ensure you have the same number in the re-edited movie as you had in the original, and in the same order, else you have to manually select them in DVDA. FYI: You can have markers for which you don’t have a scene button. I use them all the time to allow skipping through long chapters.

[Bob Linsdell]

I’ve just read what I wrote and need to clarify what I said in the following paragraph:

“As for fixing the scene markers, you need to ensure you have the same number in the re-edited movie as you had in the original, and in the same order, else you have to manually select them in DVDA. FYI: You can have markers for which you don’t have a scene button. I use them all the time to allow skipping through long chapters.”

When I said you need to ensure you have the same number, I mean that you have to have the same number of markers (not makers that are numbered the same as they were in the original movie). Also, when I said they have to be in the same order, what I mean is that the scenes need to be in the same order (not the numbers on the markers have to be in the same order as they were in the original movie).